Part 14: Superstring Theory and Conclusion

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Monday, 31 August 2026

Written by Michael Dargaville

Part 14: Superstring Theory and Conclusion

“Discover why mind weaves physical reality” ~Crystal Wind

This concluding chapter of The New Idealism gathers superstring theory, shadow matter, and the physics of consciousness into one claim: mind is not a byproduct of the brain. It is the field from which matter itself arises. The argument then reaches past the laboratory toward energy medicine, thought-powered travel, and a future the author says will only open if idealism is taken seriously.

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Superstring theory, a major theory of theoretical quantum physics of the last 20 years, also fully supports philosophical idealism.

The theory is essentially saying particles are nothing but an underlying wave form. The wave was dubbed a “super string” because it behaves very much like a violin string. Thus, the theory says there are billions upon billions of “unseen” strings pervading the universe, and their different frequencies give rise to all the matter and energy in the Universe. In his well-known book, Quantum Healing, Depak Chopra says that the prefix “super” indicates that these strings actually reside far beyond our limited four-dimensional reality.

“No one will ever see them, no matter how powerful our instruments becomes,” writes Chopra. “To clarify what a superstring is, physicist Michio Kaku gives an analogy to music: imagine that a violin is enclosed out of sight in a box. As its strings vibrate, different pitches, chords, sequences of notes, and timbers are produced,” writes Chopra.

“If you were an alien who did not know what music is, you would find each of these things completely different from one another – the note C might be like a hydrogen atom, while E-flat was a photon.

“Only by opening the box and seeing that indeed every sound came from one violin would you be convinced that they had a unified source.”

Chopra says that in the same way, nature’s fundamental field is constantly vibrating and producing variations upon the same “notes”, but that our senses are set up so that they turn this sameness into differences. He says that only be exposing the super strings would the underlying unity be evident.

Well-known American physicist and superstring specialist Paul Sirag gives a very good outline of the history of superstring theory and how it evolved.

Sirag states that Albert Einstein in 1915 introduced the idea that gravity was to be explained as the warping of four-dimensional spacetime. Sirag is a theoretical physicist whose theories not only deal with superstring but encompasses the age and size of the universe as well as the number and nature of all subatomic particles.

He says that many physicists had doubts about the reality of the 4-dimensionality of spacetime (as a unified geometrical whole which could be warped). However, these doubts were erased by the dramatic verification of Einstein’s gravity theory (called the General Theory of Relativity) in 1919, when a group of British astronomers led by Arthur Eddington measured the bending of starlight grazing the sun during a solar eclipse.

Dr John Hagelin, a Harvard-trained quantum physicist and renowned for developing a highly successful grand unified field theory based on superstring, claims superstring theory is developing a true physics of mind and consciousness, which can explain scientifically the deep physical mechanisms that underlie philosophical idealism.

Hegelin believes that superstring theory can explain some of the mysteries of the mind but goes further in saying that this new theory accurately describes higher realities. “A remarkable feature of all superstring theories is the presence of ‘shadow matter or ‘hidden sector’ matter. It appears plausible, theoretically, that this shadow matter aggregates around our physical bodies, and may actually constitute a subtler level of our physiology (i.e., a subtle body) that ‘thinks.’ Moreover, if shadow matter possesses the remarkable properties that we believe it does, it may provide a natural link between our material brain and the Unified Field of Consciousness,” he writes.

Thus, Hegelin here is going right to the heart of Philosophical Idealism with these ideas. The notion that this “shadow matter” is actually thought clearly reveals that superstring theory is also sympathetic to Philosophical idealism. This hidden sector matter apparently seems to be the missing link between, perhaps, energy and energy faster than light. Here, the similarities between David Ash’s remarkable theory of super energy and super string theory can be made. This extraordinary link shows that those at the forefront of both superstring theory and the physics of consciousness are finding a great deal of common ground. It must be stated here that superstring theory is still not accepted as finished business and is yet another theory that is at the cutting edge of physics research.

Hagelin says that superstring theory is helping to develop a true physics of mind and consciousness. “As a quantum physicist and brain researcher, I have long been frustrated that our ‘modern’ scientific understanding of consciousness is so primitive. There is no physical explanation of ‘mind’ or ‘thought’ in terms of the known particles and forces, a fact which has caused many of my scientific colleagues to deny the very existence of consciousness.”

He says that he has made use of the most fundamental state of human awareness – pure consciousness with the Unified Field, or “Superstring” field, which lies beyond space and time at the Planck scale of Nature’s functioning. “What we have lacked, so far, is a concrete link between this fundamental field of consciousness and the material brain i.e., between the physics of the Planck scale and the physics of our brain cells, which are a million-billion-trillion times larger. This giant gap between pure consciousness and the gross physical body, between the Unified Field and the brain, is the domain of mind. We need a physical understanding of it – and the conventional forces and particles are not enough.”

The famous super string physicist Paul Sirag puts forward his philosophical idealist position by stating that superstring theory shows Consciousness is the basic description of the hyperworld. He fully describes this in a well known paper entitled the “Roots of Consciousness”.

"By the very nature, however, of the unification of the competing superstring theories (and by the embedding of the lower-dimensional polytopes required for unified field theory) are implicit in some vast unification which entails consciousness in a universal sense. To me the hierarchy of the embedding structures suggests a hierarchy of realms of consciousness – or realities, for short."

Sirag has said recently in an interview exactly what other Physics of Consciousness physicists have been saying. “The body is just a shadow that is projected, so to speak, from hyperspace, and so there’s then in a sense no problem, because our internal experience is not just connected to the hyperspace, it’s an intimate piece of the hyperspace, in other words. Our own minds are projections from a much greater mind, and so on,” Sirag said.

This new area of physics is now called the Physics of Consciousness and has raised many profound questions about our current reality. The area not only combines super string theory but all new theories of theoretical physics, from bootstrap theory, David Bohm’s Implicate Order theory, David Ash’s SUPER ENERGY (and my personal favorite) to many others. However, people are still deeply disturbed by the implications of the New Physics. Both materialists, Christians, Moslems and even fundamentalist Buddhists and Hindus find some of the major concepts of the New Physics virtually frightening.

Words and concepts such as mind, consciousness, thought, spirit, abstraction, void, dream to mention some of the major ones, are extremely difficult for many people to grasp at a quantum level. And this has been one of the main reasons for the lack of wide public understanding of what is happening in theoretical physics and the Physics of Consciousness in general. These concepts are in fact much harder to grasp than even some of the most obscure mathematical formulas that can be verified.

Although such theories as superstring theory have developed in their own right, the Physics of Consciousness is now also being relentlessly investigated by new physicists. Yet research into the Physics of Consciousness is bringing together the Arts and the Sciences in an unprecedented fashion. One of the biggest problems for theoretical physics has been its inability to be simply and coherently understood by the average student and person. This has been mainly the mistake of conservative Left Brained physicists not willing to investigate new areas and the very nature of our Cartesian society. These physicists think like car mechanics while those who worked or followed the Arts, were traditionally “Anti-science”. Now all of this is radically breaking down because of the Physics of Consciousness.

Concepts such as thought and Mind as being the fabric of matter radically confronts anyone who considers such notions. It is simply extraordinary to consider such a reality. Yet this is the reality that has to be considered because of the Physics of Consciousness. As has been continually pointed out in this book, there has been a long history in philosophy, in many societies and cultures, that Thought or Mind, creates reality, or matter. Yet this remains isolated and out of reach to the average person educated deeply in Cartesian/Newtonian science and thinking. The absolutely astonishing fact that matter is being created by thought, seems to be continually passed over or simply not recognized by the general public.

Quantum theory has been saying now for nearly 50 years that Thought, Consciousness and Mind creates Matter. Many famous quantum physicists have been stating this for a long time, as revealed in this thesis. Yet this is why there is such confusion around at the moment about quantum theory. The problem with Einstein is that he was far too left brained, far too deductive, or rather, reductionist. Nevertheless Einstein was brilliant yet he and some of the early quantum theorists relied far too heavily on mathematical formula and equations. Despite this there was also a plethora of physicists at the time who thought of the New Physics in philosophical terms. And of course some of these physicists were philosophical idealists. Some of the recent superstring theories have helped to complicate the situation despite many extremely elegant superstring physicists such as Brian Green.

These physicists, and includes such famous physicists as Paul Davies, write with clarity and with a straightforward approach. Most of the leading physicists of today are also extremely good communicators and writers. However, the old reliance on equations has left a lasting impression. This is why so many people think that research into quantum theory involves maths and formal logic on a very extensive scale. And of course all mathematical formula and logic can always be expressed succinctly through the written word. Some quantum theory obviously does involve complex logic and maths but the major philosophical theory of IDEALISM is now taken very seriously as part of research in theoretical physics. And thus, this should also be taken seriously by people outside of the physics and philosophy community. If we turn to philosophy and literature, there is a reoccurring theme throughout the past four centuries that Thought/Mind/Consciousness creates matter. The famous German idealist movement and the very famous Romantic movement based their entire view on the notion/fact that reality is being produced by Thought/Mind/Consciousness. If science and literary minded people can join forces now, major gains will be made in making people understand some of the more complex issues in quantum theory.

Of course many philosophers are very well studied in the area of science and basic quantum theory and many philosophers now regard themselves as scientists more than philosophers, but this has been the reason why these philosophers have not advanced in understanding quantum theory. These philosophers themselves went far too reductionist and lost their humanities based understanding of nature and reality. Whether a person is standing at a bus stop, driving a car, watching TV, working in a plastics factory, being a street cleaner, if they understood that their entire reality is nothing but layers of thought or in fact one giant mental image, an entirely different approach to existence would be followed. Holistic thinking is urgently needed.

Our society needs to revolutionise this major scientific breakthrough and cut through the terrible unscientific reality that is propagated not only in the daily media that is deeply Newtonian/Cartesian, but also in such so-called esteemed scientific journals such as Nature and New Scientist. For too long Materialist/Reductionist/Cartesian/Newtonian writers have dominated the means of communication. These so-called scientists have created a nightmare world of confusion for the average reader. Now is the time to stop them in their tracks. The Cartesianism throughout Western and Eastern cultures and society is rife. Yet the concept of philosophical idealism has a long history both in Western and Eastern countries. The task now is to radically reignite it and bring it back into the “mainstream” debate. The “mainstream” debate is currently dictated by quantum illiterate journalists and academics (ie, postmodernists and analytical thinkers), whose out-of-date and incorrect research has made them powerful and created a very obtuse, unscientific and strange intellectual climate at present. The rise of 20th century materialism can be seen in such areas as psychological behavioralism. This discipline is still widely pursued yet has so completely been discredited that it boggles the mind at the how it is allowed to continue. For example, most mental illnesses are still treated in this deeply Cartesian discipline. Those early behavioral psychologists completely rended central concepts in Idealism as useless – thought, consciousness, mind, ideas – were merely material processes. Yet now it appears the opposite is true.

The tragedy is that most people who have not received a critical education (ie, those people who question both materialist dogma within and out of universities) accept without question the precepts of these materialist psychologists. This reaches into the heart of our society – from bank workers, travel agents, butchers, child care workers, everywhere. The advances of the “transpersonal” psychology revolution of the 1960s is now virtually laughed at by these dangerous and sometimes “out-of-control” health “professionals”. Thus, what is needed is an entire overhaul of the education system to stop the confusion that is promoted everywhere – in universities, in the media, the family and the workplace. This is now vital. So the joining of the arts and sciences at the high quantum research level is needed but also at other levels in a bid to introduce the average person to the extraordinary world of the Physics of Consciousness.

At the end of the day the New Idealism has meant that we have a better understanding of the New Age and the Galactic Federation aliens who are surrounding this planet trying to help this planet into a better future. They now want a world government based in China’s Sichuan province so we could develop vast new technologies that would all be based on philosophical idealism. Idealism is the key to the space future, to everything. For idealism to develop and flourish, we must open our own minds to know that aliens exist, that they are here to help. Aliens travel in super energy faster than the speed of light using the power of thought itself. That is the key to interstellar space travel. And that is our future.

To travel in a space ship across the galaxy we need to understand that super energy (energy faster than light produced by thought) is a reality and that to utilise super energy we need to know that the speed of thought can materialise objects at will. Aliens have said this. And we need to learn about it more. Super energy explains how Sai Baba can teleport and explains the concept of angels and Chinese chi energy. Thus this scientific revolution must start to make inroads. But it is up to us.

First published in 2002, The New Idealism has appeared in multiple international print editions and is now available in digital format through the author and at CrystalWind.ca.

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Michael Dargaville is an international journalist, poet, philosopher, university professor, singer, performance poet, natural medicine oncologist, meditation teacher, avant garde novelist and pioneering skateboarder who has been based in Asia and China for the past 25 years. He holds a BA in Philosophy from Macquarie University, a Master of Letters on Fritjof Capra and the New Physics, and spent ten years writing his 65,000-word PhD thesis — THE NEW IDEALISM — examining how philosophical idealism underpins mind-body medicine, quantum theory, transpersonal psychology, the worldwide New Age movement, and complementary and alternative medicine. He has taught at more than 20 universities around the world. His journalism has been read by more than 200 million people on the internet and translated into 15 languages. He has published more than 100 books and pamphlets including over 70 works of poetry, five novels, and four major works of philosophy. Visit his website here.

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